Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.
Toby Young
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Toby Young
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 1
Author
Freelancer
Journalist
Bucks
Toby Daniel Moorsom Young
Hon. Toby Daniel Moorsom Young
Working
Political
Writing
Years
Time
Tomes
Like
Oxfam
Organisation
Expect
More quotes by Toby Young
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
Toby Young
I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.
Toby Young
I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.
Toby Young
Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.
Toby Young
I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.
Toby Young
My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.
Toby Young
I think that magazines like Vanity Fair are still operating under the old rules, and that if you come to work for a magazine like Vanity Fair, even today, you're certainly expected to treat people like Peggy Siegal very deferentially.
Toby Young
Everyone said to me growing up, You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home.
Toby Young
I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.
Toby Young